Homecenter · North Carolina

1522 Lowe S of Boone Nc

Boone, NC · ~183 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1522 Lowe S of Boone Nc runs at 77% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Homecenter workplace, earning a grade B.

1522 Lowe S of Boone Nc: 2.6 TCR = 77% of Homecenter BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1522 Lowe S of Boone Nc safety composite

1522 Lowe S of Boone Nc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

C

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

1522 Lowe S of Boone Nc: 0.8 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.34× in 2024

1522 Lowe S of Boone Nc's TCR rose 3.5 from 0.8 in 2023 to 4.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444110 · Boone, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 77% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #52/294
  • PHOTO 1289 AMSTERDAM
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~183 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1289 AMSTERDAM (0.0 TCR gap)

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1522 Lowe S of Boone Nc in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows 1522 Lowe S of Boone Nc averages 2.6 TCR (77% of the Homecenter BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

1522 Lowe S of Boone Nc TCR series: 2023=0.8 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 3.4

Where 1522 Lowe S of Boone Nc falls in its industry

6,309 Homecenter establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #52 safest of 294 Homecenter employers in North Carolina.

1522 Lowe S of Boone Nc (183 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 1522 Lowe S of Boone Nc
1522 Lowe S of Boone Nc (183 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7

1522 Lowe S of Boone Nc has more employees than the Homecenter median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 4.4 3.5 5 0 0
2023 0.8 0.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444110 · NC · Boone

6,309 Homecenter employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 38 employers in Boone, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 1289 AMSTERDAM 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1326 LOWER HEIGHTS 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2704 NORTHVILLE 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3824 MACEDONIA 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wade Manufacturing Company: Wadesboro Plant 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mine Safety Appliances, LLC 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gerresheimer 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2908 183 FTE
CITY-NEAR Watauga Medical Center, Inc. 1,077 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2496 307 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2496 302 FTE
CITY-NEAR NC BOONE ADM 246 FTE
NAT-TCR Capasso Enterprises Inc 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR STR0336 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR STR0084 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Los Vientos 1A & 1B Wind Farms 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 300000170855993 - CA-El Monte-Shop 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE EPTAM Plastics 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bags To Go 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE SFS Group USA, Inc. 183 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.